City Officials Do Not Back Outside Flood Control Plan
Middletown officials refused to finance a flood control project outside city limits tied to a proposed Ohio 73 relocation and a new bridge over the Miami River at Trenton. The $550,000 levee would accompany the highway project. state and county officials met to discuss financing and location.
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Middletown
Tefuced
Ohio
Teenion
State
Butler County
Miami River
Trenton
Charles W. Thompson
Larry Gamble
Joseph M. Unger
Gamble
Thompson
Robert Hayes
Martin Miller
C. A. Boeke
Robert Mosecell
Arthur Reiff
Ross Snyder
Jesse Pochard
Miami Conservancy District
Richard Thomas
Dayton
Abandoned Baby Found At Hospital In Middletown
Detectives continued to trace the mother of a newborn girl found in a hallway at Middletown Hospital on Manchester Avenue. The infant, about one day old, was unnamed and listed in good condition, with no identifying laundry marks on her clothing.
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Middletown Hospital
Manchester Ave
Wheels Come Off Tractor See Auto Crash on North Verity
A right rear wheel detach from a truck tractor sent the unit across the center line and into a northbound car driven by Reece Medley at N Verity Parkway and Malvern Street. The 4 15 am collision caused 125 dollars in auto damage and 50 dollars to the truck with no injuries reported.
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N. Verity Parkway
Malvern Stret
Reece Medley
Maple Drive
Franklin
Nelson E. Williams
Dayton
New Miami Annexes Land in St Clair Township
Butler County commissioners approved annexation of a 113.92 acre tract in St. Clair township to the Village of New Miami. The area north of City View Heights bounded by West Elkton road and North B Street extension includes about 200 Cherokee Park lots under development. The action followed a petition by William H. Noble represented by attorney Richard Berridge. A public hearing on the Dick's Creek Little Muddy Creek watershed program, covering 44 000 acres in both counties, will be at 1 pm Friday February 3 at the courthouse.
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Butler County
St. Clair Township
New Miami
City View Heights
West Elkton Road
B Street
Cherokee Park
William H. Noble
N. B. St
Noble
Richard Berridge
Warren County
Reckless Driving Charge Is Filed After One-Car Crash
Franklin police charged Earl Collins 32 of 218 Roberts Ave with reckless driving after a one car crash on West Third Street near River Street at 3 am. Officers say he was pursued for running a red light at Second and River Streets before the icy crash that left his 1951 model car a total loss. he refused medical treatment.
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Franklin
Earl Collins
Roberts Ave
W. Third Street
River Street
Collins
Third Street
Second
River Streets
One in Three Unfit in Munich Draft
Bavarian youths born in 1910 reach draft age but authorities report one in three unfit for military service. Dental and spinal defects cause most rejections.
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Munich
Germany
Sculptor’s Subtle Detail Reveals Queen Isabella’s Intellect
In the Granada Cathedral statues of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella the sculptor hides a deeper depression in the pillow beneath the queen’s head to imply a larger brain, suggesting she is the more intelligent figure.
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Ferdinand
Isabella
Granada
Spain
Obituary notice for Charles Otto Long
Charles Otto Long, 76, of 1005 Neibar Street, Middletown, died at 7 45 p m yesterday at Middletown Hospital three hours after admission He was born and raised in Middletown a lifelong resident He retired in 1953 from Raymond Bay Company He belonged to St Paul Evangelical and Reformed Church His wife Louise died in 1950 He leaves a stepson Earl Kinney of Hamilton a brother Ed of Middletown and a sister Miss Laura Long of Chicago Services will be held at 3 p m Monday at McCoy Leffer Funeral Home with burial in Woodside Cemetery Friends may call tomorrow 2 to 5 p m and 7 to 9 p m
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Charles Otto Long
Neibar St
Middletown Hospital
Mr. Long
Middletown
Laura Long
Chicago
McCoy - Leffer
Woodside Cemetery
Powell Wells 77 dies. services set in Middletown
Powell Wells 77 of 3712 Warren Ave. died yesterday at Middletown Hospital. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Mc Coy Leffler Funeral Home with Rev. R. C. Caudill officiating. Burial at Woodside Cemetery. Wells last worked at Woodside Cemetery after 15 years there. Survived by wife Lula a son Omar Middletown two daughters Norma LeForce Oregonia Ora McLain Middletown two stepsons Robert Gilliam Los Angeles John Gilliam Middletown two stepdaughters Pearl Dingess West Virginia Beach Gilliam Elizabeth Ward Houston Bruce Price Middletown two brothers Perry Dennison Ky Fletcher Middletown nine grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.
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Powell Wells
Warren Ave
McCoy - Leffler
R. C. Caudill
Woodside Cemetery
Wells
Middletown Hospital
Lula
Omar
Middletown
Norma LeForce
Oregonia
Ora McLain
Robert Gilliam
Los Angeles
John Gillium
Pearl Dingess
West Virginia
Beach Gilliam
Elizabeth Ward
Houston
Bruce Price
Perry
Dennison
Fletcher
Obituary for Orla P. Kimmel Former Preble County Official
Services for Orla P. Kimmel former superintendent at Preble County Children's Home will be held at 2 pm Monday at Barnes Funeral Home with burial in Mound Hill Cemetery. He died Thursday in Swarthmore Pennsylvania where he had been living. Surviving is his daughter Mrs. Maxine Fudge of Swarthmore.
Obituaries and funeral services listed for residents
James E. McKasson 94 of Tiffin Avenue incomplete arrangements. Louis Deinzer 84 of Greenwood Manor Rest Home services 2 p m Monday Campbell. William Hacker 91 of 426% S Front St services 10 a m Monday Brown Dawson. George J Cropenbaker 60 of 2315 Elbe Ave services 10 30 a m Monday Proeschel. Robert H Taggart 81 of 322 N Fifth St services 2 p m Monday Brown Dawson.
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James E. McKasson
Tiffin Avenue
Louis Deinzer
Greenwood Manor Rest Home
Campbell
William Hacker
S. Front St
Brown-Dawson
George J. Cropenbaker
Elbe Ave
Proeschel
Robert H. Taggart
Fighth St
Obituary Notices for Hadley and Dr Lucius
London editor W. W. Hadley 4 former Sunday Times editor died Friday. Oakland pediatrician Dr William Palmer Lucius 80 died Friday of cancer after WWI relief work. Lucius was Lexington native and UC pediatrics professor for 35 years.
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London
W. W. Hadley
Britain
Sunday Times
Oakland Calif
William Palmer Lucius
Lucas
Lexington
University of California
Kennedy Won’t Name Favored Judges
Cincinnati AP reports that the American Bar Association head says Robert F. Kennedy has agreed to continue cooperating to keep politics out of federal judge appointments. ABA president Whitney N. Seymour said Kennedy agreed in a telephone talk to continue review of the association’s findings on prospective judges.
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Cincinnati
The
American Bararction
Robert F. Kennedy
Whitney N. Seymour
New York
Kennedy
Attorney Pennell Drowns in Rocky River Incident
The body of Robert B. Pennell a 27 year old Shaker Heights attorney was recovered from the Clifton Park lagoon after his sailboat capsized near the river mouth on Sunday. High winds and waves are blamed for the tragedy.
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Cleveland
Robert B. Pennell
Shaker Heights
Rocky River
Clifton Park
Pennell
Mexico’s Regional Ties In North America
The note clarifies that Mexico is geographically in North America and not part of Central America, highlighting regional classifications for maps, trade blocs, and geopolitical discussions.
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Mexico
North America
Central America
Daily fortune puzzle with name letter count
Readers are guided to count letters in their first name, adjust by rules to obtain a key number, then scan a rectangle from the upper left and read letters under checked figures to reveal a message. The game promises a daily numerical fortune.
Cold reception as Warren County courthouse hits heat outage
Visitors faced a chilly day at the Warren County courthouse after a boiler explosion left no heat. Some offices opened late or closed while workers used electric heaters causing fuse failures. An emergency County Commission session was planned to approve funds for a new boiler unit to replace the old gas conversion burner.
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Lebanon
Warren County
County Commission
Louisiana Leaders Move Toward Tax Hike in Session
Baton Rouge reports Gov. Jimmie Davis may seek a one cent rise in the two cent sales tax to fund state revenues as the Legislature opens a third anti integration special session. Opponents say they can block the plan needing two thirds in both houses while court actions continue over New Orleans school board financing and bank restraints.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Jimmie H. Davis
Davis
New Orleans
Orleans Parish
U. S
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Orleans
Rosenberg
William Frantz School
McDonogh
Actress Cleared In Divorce Suit
Los Angeles AP reports actress Joanne Dru and businessman George R. Pierose were found no evidence of misconduct amid a divorce action. The court deemed their relationship regular and kept the children in Pierose's custody pending trial.
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Los Angeles
Joanne Dru
Miss Dru
George R. Pierose
Brentwood
Eula Pierose
Superior Court
Pierose
Cial
Medics Strike Across Japan Affects 70 Hospitals
Physicians and nurses walked off the job at 70 hospitals nationwide in a fifth strike since September demanding higher wages and better working conditions. Emergency crews tended to patients as rallies disrupted other facilities.
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Tokyo
Japan
Von Braun predicts manned Moon or Mars missions by U S space vehicles
Dr. Wernher von Braun told a Boston audience that the United States will no doubt manage to place the first man on the moon or Mars using advanced space vehicles developed from current models. He said a person could be kept alive on another planet longer than a tropic native could survive in the Arctic today.
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Boston
Wernherm von Braun
United States
Moon
Mars
von Braun
Tropics
Arctic
Craddock Charged In Massive Shoplifting Case In Plymouth
Reginald Craddock was brought to court in Plymouth on a charge of stealing 1 051 items. Police reported six officers used three trucks for four hours to haul loot from Craddock's apartment, including phonograph needles and sweaters.
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Plymouth
England
Reginald Craddock
Craddock
Falls And Loses $602
Charles Henry 2108 Lowell Sr. says he fell on an icy sidewalk en route to the bank and lost 602 dollars in cash from a brown purse. He parked on Verity Parkway, fell in the 109 block, hit his head, and police aided in a search but the purse containing three 100s, fifteen 20s and two 1s was not recovered.
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Charles Henry
Lowell Sr
Henry
Verity Parkway
N. Verity Parkway
Hig Brown
Minor Burns From Linden Ave Fire
A woman suffered minor burns and $15 damage at 2101 Linden Ave when a short circuit in an electric wall plug sparked a fire as she pulled a sweeper cord. Jackie Lapsley, not listed with age or address, received treatment for two burned fingers and was told to see a doctor. James Kernan is named as occupant. No damage at 2102 Yankee Road rear disposal box fire, possibly cigarette.
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Linden Ave
Jackie Lapsley
James Kernan
Yankee Road
37 Asking Firemen To Carol
Thirty seven bedridden Middle town shut ins have so far called to have their names placed on the list of Firemen's Christmas caroling caravan stops as the deadline nears. Any other shut ins who want to be serenaded must call Fire Department headquarters at GA 2 4514 before 10 p m tomorrow. The annual project features a chorus of firemen's wives and serenading by the local barbershop group Wednesday and Thursday nights. Santa Claus will ride atop a decorated float.
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Middletown
Fire Department
Santa Claus
Trujillo Wins Governorship in Santiago Province
Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, ruler of the Dominican Republic for 30 years, wins the Santiago Province governorship in Thursday's election. He secures 121,219 votes against 7,198 for two opponents, a move seen as a popularity gesture.
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Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo
Caribbean
Santiago
Trujillo
Durante Honeymoons At Frisco Track
Jimmy Durante aged 67 honeymooned at Golden Gate Fields with his wife Margie Little. They stayed above the press box as guests of track manager Webb Everett. Durante began with losses, dropping six dollars in the sixth and again in the seventh on Sparrow Castle, joking about his future home.
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San Francisco
Jimmy Durante
Golden Gate Fields Race Track
Margie Little
Jimmy
Webb Everett
Schnozzola
Durante
State auditor distributes funds for migrant children education
Columbus Ohio AP State Auditor James A Rhodes announced the first distribution of 11124 for education of migrant workers children under a new Ohio law. The Friday distribution is the first from a 175000 appropriation approved by the 1959 legislature for that purpose.
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Columbus
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Disarmament Plans Compete as UN Sifts Proposals
United Nations moves to dispose of 14 disarmament proposals with a three day recess. The Political Committee plans to shelve half and vote on limited topics such as suspending nuclear tests and preventing spread of nuclear weapons. Canada’s plan to reactivate the 99 motion disarmament Commission gains U.S. support.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. S
Canada
Ethiopia
Africa
United States
Armco Plans to Buy Riverfront Tract Near Delhi Township
Armco Steel Corp reports near closing in a deal to buy a 10 acre riverfront tract along the Ohio River in Delhi Township adjacent to River Transportation Co. near Anderson Ferry. The land to be held for possible river terminal use. Armco also offers 30 acre Kellogg Avenue land for sale, to be eliminated with Delhi site purchase. The $95,000 contract is recorded with Hamilton County recorder for August 1, 1961.
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Armco Steel Corp
The
River Transportation Co
Ohio River
Delhi ‘Township
C& G. Davies
Armico Division
Anderson Ferry
Davies
Armco
Kellogg Avenue
Lunken Airport
Delhi Township
Gilbert J. Shaver
Hamilton County
Union Office Burglary at Trades & Labor Hall
Burglars broke into the office of Percy Craft business agent for Carpenters and Joiners Union Local 1477 at 815 S. Main St. Loot included 65.25 dollars in cash and a roll of four cent stamps valued at 20 dollars. Police noted possible use of a key for entry.
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Percy Craft
The
Carpenters and Joiners Union Local
Trades & Labor Hall
S. Main St
Craft
Theft Report Involving Rings At Local Cafe
Nancy Oliphant of 2117 Queen Ave reports two rings missing after visiting a cafe yesterday. A $275 diamond ring and a $35 zircon ring were not found upon departure.
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Nancy Oliphant
Queen Ave
Thefts Reported In Local Police Briefs
Sled stolen from a garage on 34 Fulton Lane. Flashlight taken from Liberal Market. Groceries worth $10 stolen from the truck of Walter Gray at 107 South Main Street.
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Fulton Lane
Walter Gray
S. Main St
cyclist Luther Irvin injured after fall on Plum Street
Luther Irvin aged 23 of 1706 Columbia Avenue told police he fell from his motorcycle on Plum Street early today. He suffered abrasions to his right leg and a painful chest.
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Luther Irvin
Columbia Ave
Plum Street
Girl Drops Sister Fatally Injures Infant in Cincinnati
Four month old Marie Henry died from head injuries after a sister, five year old Terry, slipped while carrying her down stairs at a Cincinnati home. Police say the child was dropped during the descent.
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Cincinnati
Marie Henry
Terry
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